Trump says one officer shot at DC dinner, suspect in custody

[SolarWarden]

Anyways to lighten to mood this whole shooting has become somewhat funny because of some X account whose only post he's ever made was in 2023 and it was this....

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Henry Martinez is very smart.

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I researched and Trump did say this



Funny. Some folks are taking this too serious... are you?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Dude, I watched the entire thing, but have you?

First of all, if you can "Avoid" the checkpoint and the metal detector, then what is the point of setting them up to begin with? Again, I don't know how much you know about Personal Protection. EVERYTHING is FUNNELED. A very big part of Personal Protection is to divert traffic, both foot traffic and automobile. You won't be able to allow someone to "by-pass" a checkpoint; this isn't some VIP who you can let go and let them by-pass the checkpoint (Which you shouldn't do it to begin with, by the way). This dude is a no-body, I don't even know if he had a "ticket" to actually got into the Correspondent Dinner, he should have been stopped a LONG TIME before he reached that "Check Point" he bypassed. Again, we know now he only had firearms this time. What if he is a suicide bomber? Trump and all the people in that building WILL BE DEAD.
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And again, you don't know if he was the only Threat, which means you need to quickly move on, you don't tackle the guy, and you don't chase him, you shot at him, and you better hit him.

What is wrong with you? I can jump the TSA counters or scale the fence of the Whitehouse lawn? There is no force field stopping you. The guy rushed the checkpoint and people opened fire on him. Didn’t you see the guns?

 

[j_hungary]

You're not as clever as you think you are, bud. One incident and you make the claim the quality of SS has gone down since your Orangeman boogie man took charge. When you say stupid cht like that it makes folks in here think you suffer from TDS.

Now I agree SS quality has gone down but not because of one event that took place last night it started going down under Barry Obama when his administration was relaxing the high standards the SS. Barry's administration had eight years of relaxing the high standards hiring people who would have never made SS under previous standard. The list I posted or the SS scandals those are the ones that made mainstream headlines and it started under Barry's administration only to be made much worse under sleepy Joe that is where DEI went into overdrive in hiring Federal security forces.


-Information regarding the lowering of Secret Service hiring standards during the Obama administration is largely framed within the context of attempting to address severe, long-term staffing shortages and pressures to increase agency diversity, rather than an explicit policy to lower operational standards. However, these changes were often criticized as damaging to the agency's quality of personnel.

Key Context and Findings:

• Staffing Crisis and Pressure: The Secret Service faced a major "agency in crisis" scenario starting around 2011, with a sharp decline in personnel due to budget cuts (Budget Control Act of 2011), low morale, and high attrition.
• Hiring Challenges: Amidst these pressures, the agency struggled to meet recruitment targets for years, with some reports noting that hiring freezes in the 2010s contributed to long-term personnel gaps that lasted for years.
• Push for Diversity and Speed: Reports indicate that in attempts to fix the staffing shortages, officials aimed to speed up the slow, intensive hiring process—which could take over a year—by reducing the timeline for candidate assessments and background checks.
• Critics' Viewpoint: Some critics and veteran agents, including those commenting later on similar issues, argued that attempts to raise diversity quotas during various administrations—including the Obama era—resulted in less qualified candidates being hired or promoted, undermining the agency's merit-based traditions.
• Recruitment Changes: The Obama administration, through the Office of Personnel Management, did encourage broad federal hiring reforms to modernize recruitment and increase diversity.
• Focus on Training Improvements: While hiring processes were accelerated, officials frequently stated they were working to speed up hiring without reducing the rigorous training standards, a difficult balance given the high turnover and morale issues.

But sure blame your Orangeman boogie man for the quality of SS when this cht started during Barry's reign.

Dude, this is NOT a single incident; there have been 4 since 2024, and there have been 6 since 2016, and if you count the Ricin Letter, there are 8. There was 1 failed attempt on Biden, and 2 failed attempts on Obama, and I don't think I will ever use smart to describe you to begin with, since you don't even process the logic to process numbers and data.








Again, those are Secret Service agents, specially, well-trained and seasoned Secret Service agents. I can't go to the Secret Service Academy myself and demand to be a Secret Service agent and put on the Presidential Protection Team, and these people, either in 2024, Butler, and this one. They may as well hire you as a Secret Service agent

On the other hand, talking about "Hiring Standard" is moot point, because as I said, you don't get to do those kind of job just out of academy, and you are going to get the best of the best to the top game of Personal Security, they wouldn't let me in the Personal Protection team, and I am probably more season than anyone who just graduate from Secret Service Academy. And that's because they had people who had more experience than I had in the field, but look at the protection detail last night, and 2 other separate times when the attempt was actually made successfully, as I said, they may as well hire you to be in the Presidential Protection Team. And I am pretty sure I know more about force and personal protection than you.

So if this is a matter of "hiring" practice, then you need to explain to me how there are no successful attempts with both Obama and Biden in the last 20 years but 4 with Trump, especaially as you said it was "Obama" year that was doing the dip.

 

[j_hungary]

projecting much, eh?

No, just speaking the truth, again, as I said, what do you know about Personnel Protection? I would love to discuss the subject with you if you are up for it.

I mean, as in how the Triangle Formation works? How to divert and funnel traffic flow? How can you identify a threat in real time? Come on, let's discuss those topics.

And THAT's Projecting.

 

[j_hungary]

What is wrong with you? I can jump the TSA counters or scale the fence of the Whitehouse lawn? There is no force field stopping you. The guy rushed the checkpoint and people opened fire on him. Didn’t you see the guns?

What's wrong with me?

Dude, you can jump the TSA counter is one thing, but can you jump over a Secret Agent checkpoint or white house fence? Or should you be able to? Do you want to try and see what will happen? That's the question here, unless you are talking about TSA and the SS have the same training, you WOULD HAVE expected to be able to jump over a TSA counter, which by the way, is not easy at all, than jumping over a Secret Agent checkpoint.

And again, those agents firing the gun is not the issue here; the point is how he got to that point to begin with. Sure, your agent fires at the bad guy and kills him after the bad guy killed your principal, that's not at all a failure, right? As I said, if HE WAS OUTSIDE the room with a weapon, he could have had a bomb, you won't know, simply because you don't know he had firearms as a matter of fact, and everyone INSIDE would have been dead. If that is a proper assassin, he would have done much more damage because that final barrier is breached, and he is on the other side of the barrier. Just because the assassin is stupid does NOT score any points for the Secret Service. But looks like you are expecting TSA-level protection on the President, well, in that case, then I am wrong.

And 20 seconds before they push Trump's big head down? Dude, are you protecting him, or do you want him dead?

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

1. You may buy an AR-15 from a private individual (non-dealer) without a background check or state paperwork.
2. You need a government ID to buy a SIM card to activate an iPhone at a carrier (like AT&T).

Stop playing loose and fast with the facts.

Seriously.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Next post about wishing the President was assassinated earns a perma-thread ban.

Absolutely NOT going to tolerate it.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

What's wrong with me?

Dude, you can jump the TSA counter is one thing, but can you jump over a Secret Agent checkpoint or white house fence?

Sure...people jump the White House fence and then security grabs them (hopefully quickly). It happens.

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Intruder jumps White House fence, sparks evacuation


Not uncommon for people to make it over the fence

At the Washington Hilton the guy ran through the metal detector area and then was tackled by the security further down the hallway. They aren't going to lock arms like a rugby team at the metal detectors.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

The whole thing is very suspect tho. Is the shooter using a shotgun to shoot outside the ballroom? And he gets that gun in the perimeter and fires off 4 or 5 shots before getting "arrested."

First of all, you have to be the stupidest assassin to try to shoot someone outside the ballroom. If you can get in the perimeter with a shotgun, you can get in there or wait for Trump to come out for you to shoot him.

And then the SS didn't shoot the guy? And they just let him shoot outside 4 or 5 times? And then they evacuated Trump while the "imminent threat" was gone?

I am sorry but the whole thing sound suss as F. If I am letting rounds off outside the President, I am going to get shot, they are not going to just arrest me, it isn't firecracker I am letting it out, yes, stupid as it is to try to shoot outside the building, you don't know if you are SS that it is the only threat, I wouldn't arrest the guy, I will shoot the guy if I am a duty SS agent, because unless I know for sure, that's only 1 dumbass doing this, I am going to eliminate him and scan for other threats.

And Trump was sitting inside, like, as he said, "dishes come down." Dude, the first shot would have triggered SS response, you won't stay there for 4 or 5 shots + some waiting time before slowly being evac'ed........

And what about the guy in Florida with an SKS? Really? Who uses an SKS?

The kid in Pennsylvania was a dumbass. That shot could have been made offhand by anyone with even the slightest amount of firearms skill.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Oh man that overweight female SS agent just fills me with dread.....

Don't think she was on the A-Team. More like F Troop.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

She reminds me of the female SS agent at Orangemans first attempt at Butler Pennsylvania trying to look all hard and she couldn't holster her/they weapon.

DEI hires.

 

[SolarWarden]

Dude, this is NOT a single incident; there have been 4 since 2024, and there have been 6 since 2016, and if you count the Ricin Letter, there are 8. There was 1 failed attempt on Biden, and 2 failed attempts on Obama, and I don't think I will ever use smart to describe you to begin with, since you don't even process the logic to process numbers and data.

Lol. This is the first incident of Trump's second term; you made the claim SS quality has gone down since Trump took charge which is a moronic claim and you yourself know it. Just admit you were having a TDS moment when you made that claim.

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Again, those are Secret Service agents, specially, well-trained and seasoned Secret Service agents. I can't go to the Secret Service Academy myself and demand to be a Secret Service agent and put on the Presidential Protection Team, and these people, either in 2024, Butler, and this one. They may as well hire you as a Secret Service agent

On the other hand, talking about "Hiring Standard" is moot point, because as I said, you don't get to do those kind of job just out of academy, and you are going to get the best of the best to the top game of Personal Security, they wouldn't let me in the Personal Protection team, and I am probably more season than anyone who just graduate from Secret Service Academy. And that's because they had people who had more experience than I had in the field, but look at the protection detail last night, and 2 other separate times when the attempt was actually made successfully, as I said, they may as well hire you to be in the Presidential Protection Team. And I am pretty sure I know more about force and personal protection than you.

Oh where to start.....

Majority of dates happened when Trump wasn't president, notice that? A lot of those dates and plots happened nowhere near the presidents including the 2017 forklift incident where cops only found out after interviewing the sus. Police thought he was just stealing a forklift. Get this through your head... the hiring standards for SS was lowered under Barry in the name of diversity and got much worse under Biden. Now if you believe you can't make SS PPT under the standards back then it speaks volumes about you.

So if this is a matter of "hiring" practice, then you need to explain to me how there are no successful attempts with both Obama and Biden in the last 20 years but 4 with Trump, especaially as you said it was "Obama" year that was doing the dip.

Oh this is very easy to answer and I hope you watch because it really does answer the question.

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The left is violent and have a rich history of it that is why Barry and Biden were pretty much safe unlike Trump where the left actually wishes for his death.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

My 11 year old turned round and said to me today - dad all this is made
Up so we forget about how stupid Trump has been over the last few months?
If he can spot it - we ought to be able to see whats just happened…….

Mate, something tells me your 11 year old has a good head on his shoulders.

 

[EugeneP]

Stop playing loose and fast with the facts.

Seriously.

You are welcome to correct me with facts. I claim no expertise.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto​

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Published April 26, 2026, 11:38 a.m. ET

Exclusive | Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto

In the 1,052-word missive obtained by The Post Sunday morning outlined Allen’s “rules of engagement” for the shooting and stated he believed it was his righteous duty to target ad…

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Manifesto closes with.....


PS: Ok now that all the sappy stuff is done, what the hell is the Secret Service doing? Sorry, gonna rant a bit here and drop the formal tone.

Like, I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every 10 feet, metal detectors out the wazoo.

What I got (who knows, maybe they’re pranking me!) is nothing.

No damn security.

Not in transport.

Not in the hotel.

Not in the event.

Like, the one thing that I immediately noticed walking into the hotel is the sense of arrogance.

I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.

The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.

Like, this level of incompetence is insane, and I very sincerely hope it’s corrected by the time this country gets actually competent leadership again.